Health Healthcare Environment in India
India isdrawing global attention due to its profound political, economic, and socialtransformations, which have significantly improved its people's standard ofliving. Unfortunately, this socioeconomic change is mostly an urban phenomenon.The rural population continues to suffer from economic deprivation, andemerging health profile in rural areas is a cause for concern for stakeholdersassociated with healthcare in India. Nearly 75% of healthcare infrastructure,medical personnel, and other resources exist in urban locations where only 27%of the population lives. NGO for Health The rural community is impactedby contagious, infectious, and waterborne diseases like typhoid, infectious,diarrhea, measles, tuberculosis, whooping cough, amoebiasis, hepatitis, worminfestations, malaria, respiratory infections, pneumonia, and reproductivetract infections. Again, noncommunicable diseases like blindness, cancer,mental disorder, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, hypertension, accidents, and injuries arealso increasing. We are always aspiring for a better quality of life. Still,the unforgiving reality in rural India is that most adults working inagricultural fields face chronic starvation. A significant number of childrenhave stunted growth due to undernutrition, and one out of ten babies do notmake it past the first year of their life. Many children in rural areas leave school year-on-year because of an illness in the family, and they have to work to add to the family's income. This cost of hospitalization places the affected families below the poverty line.
IMPACT: OVER 1,00,000 INDIVIDUALS BENFITEDTHROUGH OUR PROGRAMS
Healthcare:
- Health on Wheels- Mobile Medical Clinic for Marginal Communities.
- Aahwahan Health Centre- A Small Clinic for Rural India
- Doctor at School
“Health on Wheels” - Mobile Medical Clinic
It is our latest service for rural healthcare. Hospitals in rural India are overburdened,understaffed, and ill-equipped. The doctor-patient ratio in India is less than the WHOprescribed limit of 1:1000. Our mobile medical van can provide cost-effective treatmentto people in rural areas.The mobile van comprises a driver, a nurse, and a doctor visiting one village per day andproviding Outpatient Physical Therapy to patients in inaccessible rural areas. Theschedule would be shared in advance with the villagers for better coordination. Through this innovative program, Aahwahan Foundation aims to bridge the gap between theacute shortage of medical care and service delivery in rural areas.At present, the mobile medical van is used to fight against COVID-19. We visit variousslums in urban settings and rural areas to conduct testing for diabetes & other illness; werefer any cases to the public health authorities.
